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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation of firms to regulation. This paper provides a primer for researchers …
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What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
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I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
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labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we … argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of the distribution of relative productivity. Building on Rosen … productivity slowdown in the mid 70s through the 80s and to a speedup in the 90s. …
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productivity. Further, when our model is subjected to skill-upgrading and changes in employee bargaining power, it is capable of … employees' relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …
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Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …
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-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …
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This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …
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I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...
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